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YourArtsyGirlPodcast
by Cristina QuerrerThis podcast is a place to talk about creativity, learn about some artists and writers. It is a safe place for artists and writers to learn about each other's creative processes and craft.
Episodes
Episode 53: Anya Ow
18m · PublishedCheck out this episode with writer, Anya Ow, a Singaporean residing in Australia. We discuss her work, her "co-workers" (cats), & reads a segment from her newly released novella, "Cradle and Grave".
http://yourartsygirlpodcast.com
http://anyasy.com
http://neonhemlock.com
Episode 53: Anya Ow
18m · PublishedCheck out this episode with writer, Anya Ow, a Singaporean residing in Australia. We discuss her work, her "co-workers" (cats), & reads a segment from her newly released novella, "Cradle and Grave".
http://yourartsygirlpodcast.com
http://anyasy.com
http://neonhemlock.com
Episode 52: Pam Peacock
14m · PublishedThis week, I feature Filipinx visual artist, Pam Peacock. She is the very talented younger sister of Eddie Peacock, a former classmate and neighbor of mine at Clark Air Force Base & Angeles City, Philippines. Listen to us discuss her work, her process, future plans, & how she is holding up during this pandemic.
http://yourartsygirlpodcast.com
http://thevoyagerpeacock.com
Instagram: @thevoyagerpeacock
Episode 51: Ina Cariño
17m · PublishedI'm back in effect, and this week, I am featuring, Filipinx poet, Ina Cariño. We discuss her work and her future plans and how she is holding up during this Coronavirus pandemic.
Note: I will be discussing how other writers/poets/artists and creatives are dealing with creating during these times.
http://yourartsygirlpodcast.com/episodes
www.inacarino.com
Bio: Born in the Philippines, Ina Cariño is a queer Filipinx-American writer. She holds an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC, and is a 2019 Kundiman Fellow. Her work appears in Waxwing, New England Review, The Oxford Review of Books, Tupelo Quarterly, and VIDA Review, among other journals. In 2019, Ina founded a reading series in the Triangle area of NC called Indigena, which centers marginalized voices, including but not limited to those of BIPOC, QTPOC, and people with disabilities. Through her writing, Ina explores the navigation of being American as a brown body, and the deeply impactful effects of living in the diaspora. She hopes to find paths to not just justice, but also to healing of self and community.
It Feels Good to Cook Rice
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it feels heavy to cook rice
it feels familiar
Episode 50: Tony Robles (Part 2)
33m · PublishedThanks for tuning in and being patient! Episode 50 features poet/writer, Tony Robles who I have back on the show. He had just been awarded the Carl Sandburg Writer-In-Residency. Tony discusses his past & current work. He also recites his poem, "My Father's Music".
http://yourartsygirlpodcast.com
https://www.nps.gov/carl/learn/news/2020-wir-tony-robles.htm
http://tonyrobles.wordpress.com
My Father's Music
My father's music
Percolates and palpitates
Like hot coffee dreaming
A tap dancer's arrival
Hitting throat with the
Right note, going back,
Deep, unopposed
My father's music is
Caught in a kettle whose
Grease endured screams
And flame of gas stove
Decisions where curling irons
Bent notes and contemplated
Hooks landing on the chin and
Announcing a verdict on a
Rippled canvas
My father's music is
An empty cup of my
Favorite things where soup
Is made from pain and
Love is made from rain
My father's music is
Made in wood when he
Would then wouldn't then
Would again and would
Is softer than stone and
Woodn't you know it?
My father's music is the
Chamber of cool poking
Into the greenness of the
Sun's estate of ecstatic static
My father's music
Is sky minus rain
Divided by sun
Multiplied by incense
In the smoldering
Pyramid of branches
My father's music is the
In-time pantomime of
The heaven-hell debate
Whose defense rest
On the 8th day
My father's music floats
And glides from
Head to thigh and on that other
Side where up is down and down
Is up, sticking like flap jacks
Whose wings lap lap lap the
Tick tock oil of greasy time
My father's music
Skips, bumps, burps,
Slurps, sizzles on the
Sunny side of the street
Crackle pop
Bop
Pan fried
With an
Egg on
Top
My
Father's
Music
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Episode 49: Beverly Parayno
34m · PublishedBeverly Parayno is a talented fiction and creative non fiction writer. Learn more about her journey as a writer and her tremendous volunteer & outreach work for arts organizations. Do follow her work. She is someone to look out for!
http://yourartsygirlpodcast.com
http://www.beverlyparayno.com
Bio: Beverly Parayno is from East San Jose. Her fiction, memoir, essays, and author interviews have appeared in Narrative Magazine, Bellingham Review, World Literature, The Rumpus, Warscapes and Huizache, among others. Her work has been translated into Mandarin by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She is currently working on a memoir entitled RUN, set during her teenage runaway years in upstate New York in the mid-1980s. Parayno earned an MA from University College Cork and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Currently, she serves on the board of PAWA, a nonprofit arts organization and publisher dedicated to supporting and promoting Filipinx writers, and on the executive committee of Litquake. She is a grants consultant for social justice nonprofits in the Bay Area. You can find her at www.beverlyparayno.com.
Episode 48: John A. Vanek
30m · PublishedI open this new year, 2020, with John A. Vanek: a mystery/thriller writer with a sleuthing priest series about Father Jake Austin's life. Listen to him discuss how having a great creative writing teacher in college while going to med school inspired him to write & publish poetry & now a mystery series.
http://yourartsygirlpodcast.com/episodes
http://www.johnvanekauthor.com
BIO: John A. Vanek graduated from Case Western Reserve University, where his passion for creative writing took root. He received his M.D. from the University of Rochester and practiced medicine for a quarter century, but his interest in writing never waned. Medicine was his life, but mysteries became his drug of choice.
He began honing his craft in creative writing workshops and college courses and was gratified when his early work won contests and was published widely. He now lives happily as an ink-stained-wretch in Florida with Geni, his wife, fellow writer, and best friend. He teaches a poetry workshop for seniors at a local college, and enjoys swimming, hiking, sunshine, good friends, and red wine. John is an active member of the International Thriller Writers.
Absolution (book 3): Father Jake Austin must decide whether to turn his back on his biological father, the man who deserted him as a child, or to turn the other cheek and save him from a vengeful drug lord, risking his own life and the lives of those he loves.
Genesis of the Father Jake Austin Mystery Series: Father Jake Austin is a fictional character, but aspects of his personality and struggles are modeled after two Catholic priests who became my close friends and confidants. When I first met them, I expected the usual stereotypes, but when their Roman collars came off, I found that they were simply human.
One priest confessed his attraction to a young nun. Call his love unrequited; he called it hell. I watched this righteous man struggle with his commitment to his vows. This became the inspiration for Jake and Emily’s relationship in my novels.
Seeing these men wrestle with the same emotions that we all share shattered my preconceived notions. I wanted to portray Father Jake as a spiritual man, but as realistically as possible.
Coffeetown Press in Seattle, WA published DEROS and Miracles in paperback & eBook formats in 2018 & 2019 respectively. Book 3, Absolution, will be released March 15, 2020.
In praise of the Father Jake Austin Series:
“Interesting, nuanced characters in a finely wrought setting.” -- Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of Wilde Lake.
"John Vanek guides the reader through the seldom-seen worlds of both medicine and the priesthood. His years as a physician at a Catholic hospital make him the perfect creator of this literary mystery, but few physicians can manage prose as well as Vanek does." -- Sterling Watson, Professor of Creative Writing at Eckerd College, and author of Suitcase City.
“A riveting tale of mystery and murder. Superb storytelling with a deft touch by this talented author who keeps ratcheting up the tension until the explosive ending. A page-turner, but the characters linger in your memory. File DEROS under 'good books to read.' ” -- Ann O'Farrell, author of the Norah's Children Trilogy.
“John Vanek writes from a place of unusual experience and expertise while bringing the reader into worlds of mystery, medicine, and religion — and the human connections that bridge them all. Father Jake Austin is an intriguing and emotionally compelling character.” - Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author of How It Happened
“John A. Vanek deftly takes readers up to the high wire of difficult moral choices. Father Jake Austin’s search for a balance between science and faith will make you a fan of the series, the mystery genre, and physician-writer John Vanek.” - Martin Kohn, PhD, director, Program in Medical Humanities, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
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Episode 47: Nick Carbó
30m · PublishedClosing out this year with a sensational guest: poet, Nick Carbó! Listen to this episode and discover how Nick's Filipino American literature and poetry anthologies helped catapult Filipino-American poetics. Find out what he's been up to and listen to him read some of his poems!
http://yourartsygirlpodcast.com/episodes
You can purchase Secret Asian Man here:
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Asian-Man-Nick-Carbo/dp/1932339639
Some interesting links pertaining to Nick's work!
http://archivio.el-ghibli.org/index.php%3Fid=1&issue=01_05§ion=6&index_pos=5&inlingua=t.html
Nick on NPR:
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1667164
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THE BOY IN BLUE SHORTS
The screaming woman on the other side
Of our tall black gate
Would have thrown a rock at me
My maid, Rosita, sheltered me from the insults—
Something about my being
Retarded and full of worms
The woman nudged her son forward.
Blue shorts, clean t-shirt, rubber slippers.
She said her little boy was the one
Who should have been adopted, he was healthy.
He looked about my age, four or five.
We were both silent.
“I want to see the Mr. and the Mrs.,
they are making a big mistake!”
Rosita bolted the gate, took me by the hand—
“those are bad people, don’t listen to them!”
I felt the crisp whiteness of her skirt all the way across
The garden back to our house.
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The next poem was recently scrolled on the big screen in the big U2 and Bono's Joshua Tree concert in Manila in December 2019. They might use the poem in some video in the future.
DIRECTIONS TO MY IMAGINARY CHILDHOOD
If you stand on the corner
Of Mabini Street and Legazpi Avenue,
Wait for an orchid colored mini-bus
With seven oblong doors,
Open the fourth door—
An oscillating electric fan
Will be driving, tell her to proceed
To the Escolta diamond district—
You will pass Maneng Virays bar,
La isla de los ladrones book shop,
The Frederick Funston fish sauce factory,
And as you turn left into Calle de los recuerdos,
You will see Breto, Bataille, and Camus
Seated around a card table playing
Abecedarian dominoes—
Roll down your window and ask
Them if Mr. Florante and Miss Laura
Are home, if the answer is yes,
Then proceed to Noli Me Tangere Park,
And wait for a nun named Maria Clara—
If the answer is “je ne sais pas!” then turn
Right into the parking lot of Sikatuna’s
Supermarket to buy a basketful
Of lanzones fruit, then get back
To Calle de los Recuerdos until you reach
The part that’s lined with tungsten-red
Juan Tamad trees, on the right will be
A house with an acknowledgements page
And and index, open the door and enter
The page and look me in the eye.
Bio: On the day Nick Carbó (kar-boh) was born on October 10, 1964 in a village beside the sea in the Philippines, the number one song was “Oh Pretty Woman” by Roy Orbison. One can imagine that riff (cue in Da-na-na, na-na, da-na-na, na-na) following him the rest of his life after being born to a poor peasant family and quickly improving his lot in life when he was adopted by a well-to-do Spanish/Filipino couple at around fifteen months old. Yes, there would be pretty women walking in and out of his life with the first being his adopted mother Sophie who was half Greek and half Filipino/Spanish.
Episode 46: Courtney LeBlanc
26m · PublishedCourtney LeBlanc is a poet from the Arlington/DC metro area who has a full-length poetry collection out entitled Beautiful & Full of Monsters through Vegetarian Alcoholic Press. Listen to this episode and learn more about her work and about us discussing self promotion and coordinating your own book tour, among other things!
http://yourartsygirlpodcast.com/episodes
http://courtneyleblanc.com
Preorder your copy here: http://www.vegetarianalcoholicpress.com/titles/courtney-leblanc-beautiful-amp-full-of-monsters
Bio: Courtney LeBlanc is the author of Beautiful & Full of Monsters (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, March 2020), The Violence Within (Flutter Press, 2018, currently out of print), and All in the Family (Bottlecap Press, 2016) , and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She has an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. She loves nail polish, wine, and tattoos.
She blogs at WordPerv and she can be contacted at Courtney (dot) LeBlanc2015 (at) gmail (dot) com.
Episode 45: Ron Riekki
1h 4m · PublishedRon Riekki and I had a great conversation about his work, his life, and our common experiences. He is a Saami, Karelian, Finn, and Greek writer with many writing credits. He's studied with Anne Beattie, John Casey, Jayne Anne Phillips, Anselm Hollo, and Stuart Dybek, to name a few! He also hung out with actor Sean Penn! Do give a listen and learn about this fascinating writer!
http://yourartsygirlpodcast.com/episodes
https://rariekki.webs.com/
You can order "Posttraumatic" here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781732336162/posttraumatic-a-memoir.aspx
You can order "My Ancestors Are Reindeer Hers and I am Melting in Extinction" here: https://www.amazon.com/Ancestors-Reindeer-Herders-Melting-Extinction/dp/1627202102
"In My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I am Melting in Extinction, Ron Riekki presents a collection of non-fiction, short stories, and poetry about the Karelian- and Saami-American experience. In true nomadic fashion, his writing takes the reader to Kuusamo, Utah, Berkeley, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Lake Mohave, Yosemite, Karelia, and a hazmat facility where all the animals on site have been forgotten.
A mix of Anselm Hollo, Gregory Orr, Eric Torgersen, and Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Riekki’s writing forces the Saami-American voice to be heard, a voice that some might not even realize exists. It does. Furiously."
You can order "Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice" here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1611863082/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
You can order "The Many Lives of the Evil Dead" here: https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-many-lives-of-the-evil-dead/
YourArtsyGirlPodcast has 67 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 35:12:59. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 20th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 2nd, 2024 11:14.
